Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel
Gallery 1
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
One couple - two artists. One project - two media. One environment - two perceptions. One world - two interpretations. One exhibition - a thousand thoughts.
The Artists ask the question “We are all living on the same planet - or are we?” Our perception of the physical world can be quite different and even more so our interpretation of past and present events.
Image: Manuel Pfeiffer, Flooded trees (Mita Mita River), 2018, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 102cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grace Costa, Mark Mohell, Fiona Scheidel, Aaron Pollock, Juliette Dudley.
Gallery 2
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
Beauty in Difference, curatored by Grace Costa, shows mixed media work by five Canberra artists; Grace Costa, Mark Mohell, Juliette Dudley, Aaron Pollock and Fiona Scheidel. All artists are invited to express their interpretation of the theme; highlighting the difference in nature and how it challenges what is normal and beautiful.
Image: Grace Costa, Spotted series, Joker, Fine Art Giclee, Prints 58 x 40cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Susan Chancellor
Gallery 3
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
Chancellor has created an immersive series of painterly monotypes evoking a sense of these oft repeated journeys between her regional home and the city of Canberra. This exhibition forms part of M16’s Regional Initiative in 2019.
Image: Susan Chancellor, Monaro, 2018, oil monotype on paper, 50cm x 35 cm (detail).
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Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz
Gallery 1a
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
Activity Centres is a conversation between two artists that both explore the tentative and incessant position between the natural and the urban through abstract sculptures, paintings and space.
Image: Kendall Manz, Studies in falling 4, 2018, porcelain, glaze 18x18x12cm. Photo: courtesy of artist
Chris Holly, Harvey Welsh, Tricia Woodhouse, Akka Ballenger Constantin, Curated by Chris Holly
Gallery 1b
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
A Group show that will explore how a visual art practice flows in myriad streams. From source to destination, streams of thought, subject, approach and choice of medium ow as we move individually and collectively through a creative life.
“By immersing ourselves and creating these flows we seek to step into a shared stream and experience ever newer outcomes.”
Chris Holly
Image: Chris Holly, Where Once There Was, 2018, Giclee Print, 50x60cm
Emilio Cresciani
Gallery 2
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
Through the delicate patterns of the shattered glass we see the dark nature of rampant consumerism and the devastation of our environment that is required to sustain it. Both the cars and our road networks become redundant. The black and white references our impaired perception of what we are doing to our world: For now we see through a glass, darkly.
A car-recycling yard in western Sydney houses hundreds of smashed cars, row upon row. Their bonnets up, car-lovers stroll through the landscape to purchase spare parts. As I cut out the glass sheets from the cars the safety glass stayed intact and formed interesting patterns. The cracks look like streets seen from above.
Image: Emilio Cresciani, Fragment #13, Through a glass, darkly, 2017, chromogenic print, 23 x 35cm
Julie Goodwin
Gallery 3
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
This new body of work is entirely focused on the unique rural and suburban fusion around Mt Taylor, Canberra.
Image: Julie Goodwin, 2018, Menacing, Mixed media on board, 41 x 51cm.
Photo: courtesy of artist
Graham Eadie
Gallery 1
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
It takes a long time to acquire a pictorial language and learn how to communicate through it. Visual interest is created through a tension between material surface and illusions of depth and distance. The works have a balance of figuration and abstraction intended to stir the imagination of viewers.
-Graham Eadie
Image: Graham Eadie, Tower of Babel Red rag, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 300 mm
Photo: courtesy of artist
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Murray Kirkland
Gallery 2
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
This body of work seeks to convey a more personal, intimate view of history through exploring the experience of an individual. Through this exhibition I seek to convey a more emotional perception of history, while questioning the motivation to understand the past?
Image: Murray Kirkland, Trench, 2018, oil on canvas, (detail).
Photo courtesy of the artist
Robert Bleyerveen
Gallery 3
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
A series of paintings created through the artist’s own experience of feeling caught in one place, being prevented from painting by nerve injuries in his arms and slowly readjusted to painting smaller works, without physically roaming too far from home.
Image: Robert Bleyerveen, Neither Here nor There, 2017, Acrylic on Canvas Diptych, 1020 x 760 mm
Photo courtesy of the artist
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Curated by Linda Bottari
Gallery 1
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
This exhibition draws on the diversity, skill, and professionalism of the 24 current members of the Southern Highlands Printmakers. It would provide a rare opportunity to showcase the quality of work being produced in the Southern Highlands in the field of printmaking to new audiences in Canberra.
Image: Margot Rushton, The Graveyard, 2019, 30 x 40cm, unique state: copper etching & chine colle.
Gallery 2
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
An exhibition of prints made through software applications to explore how technologies interact with human perception.
Image: Keely Van Order, 3 body problem, 2018, detail. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Gallery 3
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
The inspirations in my work come from nature and folklore, animals and nature are what inspire me, and I explore that through folk tales, from my family’s heritage and from the space around me.
Shannon Donahue, Woodland, 2018, cardboard, plaster, acrylic paint, 35 x 25 x 16cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Head
Gallery 1
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
A thought-provoking exhibition aimed at shedding light on the plight of animals around the world that are now close to extinction. A percentage of the artwork sales will be donated to IAPF (International Animal Poaching Foundation).
The body of work includes detailed information about individual animals, leaving the viewer asking questions “how did it come to this?”
Image: Rachel Head, Gorilla, 2018, ink in paper, detail. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Gallery 2
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
A series of drawing machines that will autonomously create artworks of a random nature. These haphazardly constructed and fault-prone machines will be a playful but poetic experience which brings into question the role of the artist by replacing the artist’s hand with a mechanical arm.
Image: Belle Palmer, Symbiosis, Steel, hair, bamboo 2018
Photo: David Lindesay
Artists Society of Canberra
Gallery 3
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
Same time, same place explores a sense of identity, connection, meaning, longing and attachment to a particular place. By allowing the artist to examining the passage of time by returning or re-connection to the well-known or familiar.
Image: Steve Tomlin, Dear Nora, 2018.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Luke Aleksandrow, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Denise Ferris, Annika Harding, Ellis Hutch, and Shags
Gallery 1
13 - 30 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 June
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 30 June
Elegy for Winter is a group exhibition featuring emerging and established artists who engage with physical, intellectual and imaginative responses to winter landscapes in a changing climate. Their work spans photography, video, sculpture and painting.
Image: Ellis Hutch, Lake polish, 2016, still from performance on Lake Haukijärvi Finland
Photo Credit: Annika Harding
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Rachell Theodorakis.
Gallery 2
13 - 30 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 June
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 30 June
A suspended installation narrating a personal journey of empowerment. Using bovine bones and waxed thread, the black and white colour palette expresses purification and the end of something, which brings forth a new beginning. The bones are symbolic of the self and the weaving becomes the storyteller.
Image: Rachel Theodorakis. Evolution Series III, 2017. Bone, acrylic paint, cotton thread, bees wax, stainless steel mount. 85 x 24 x 30cm.
Photo Credit: Brenton McGeachie
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Michael Desmond, Peta Jones, Bryn Desmond-Jones, Ossian Desmond-Jones
Gallery 1
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
The exhibition brings together a family of four artists, all working in different ways, around the idea of ‘aerial’, that is of being ‘of the air’. Each artist has a unique understanding of what it means to them and differing means of expression that employ a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and digital media.
Image: Peta Jones, 2017, Sturt Pea Contruction 2,. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Adina West
Gallery 2
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
This work is the first of a series addressing contemporary cultural simulacra of historically valuable materials. Ebony and Gold takes reference from architectural structures and incorporates an interior design aesthetic that appears as a distillation of regal taste. By emphasising the use of veneers through form, the work becomes at once a query toward the desire to imitate and disperse costly material objects into the mainstream.
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Racheal Bruhn
Gallery 3
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
A collection of images that cycle through the idea of still life and the containment of life in wet specimen containers. Exploring the idea of life gone, live bustling, and potential held suspended, through light, flesh and liquid separating the viewer from the time, the life suspended.
Image: Racheal Bruhn, Mother and daughter, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Gallery 1
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
M16’s studio artists present their annual group exhibition. Representing a broad cross-section of Canberra’s artistic practitioners, the exhibition highlights the diversity of professional art practice at M16 through
paintings, prints, drawings, jewellery and objects produced by both established and emerging artists.
Image: Open Studio day 2017
Photo Credit: Greer Versteeg
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Gallery 2
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
Canberra Art Workshop is a thriving studio centre for the arts at M16 Artspace. They welcome all artists, from complete beginners to practicing professionals. This exhibition presents a range of work including life drawing, pastel, watercolour, portraiture, print making and others – all made in Canberra Art Workshop’s studio.
Image: CAW interior courtesy of CAW
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Gallery 3
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
This exhibition showcases works by Hands-On Studio members. The works explore story-telling and were all produced from Hands-On classes.
Hands-On Studio is an arts organisation at M16 Artspace which seeks to provide people with all abilities the access to an art education. One of the studio’s objectives is to provide these artists with as many opportunities as possible to exhibit in mainstream gallery spaces.
Image: Gallery 3, Hands on Studio 2017
Photo Credit: Greer Versteeg
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Gemma Bonshek Kane, John Hart, Saara March, Tiffany Karlsson, Anna Bonshek, Kim Goldsmith, Kyoko IMazu
Gallery 1a
15 August - 1 Septmber 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
Our place in the world can be bestowed upon us, sought for, lost and even expanded beyond into a world of groundlessness. Seven artists share their connection to place and the place ‘less’ through painting, print media, sculpture and ceramics.
Image: Gemma Bonshek Kane, Their Journey Is still Our Journey, 2016, 40x28x14cm, porcelainous stoneware.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Gallery 1b
15 August - 1 Septmber 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
This exhibition will present paintings which Page continues his exploration of Australia’s urban environments of Sydney and Melbourne as well as Canberra. Focusing on the way cities have developed as urban palimpsests where the painter can expose and present the layers of urban history which only been partly erased.
Image: Phil Page, Axial Instability, 2018, ink, metal leaf, acrylic on marine ply board, 9 panels 61x46cm.
Photo Credit: Dorian Photographs.
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Rebecca Selleck
Gallery 2
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
In Australia, we have an interesting relationship with introduced species. Many that dominate the landscape today as indentured species were brought over with the First Fleet to create industry around their meat, milk, and skin. But, as species that didn’t evolve with the land, they have become another layer of forced environmental change that has had enduring consequences. Despite the mass destruction of complex ecosystems from the introduction of numerous livestock, crops, and farming methods onto a once well managed continent, the husbandry of animals such as cows and sheep has become part of our national identity. A notion of taming a wild landscape that has endured.
Image:Fenkata/Watering Hole, 2015, Rabbit pelts, found objects, electrics, heated wiring, steel, fabric, synthetic stuffing, 130 x 230 x 170cm (approximately)
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Noelle Bell, Joan Costanzo, Manuel Pfeiffer, Alan Pomeroy, Mort Schipp, Peggy Spratt, Patricia Wheatstone, Delene White, Jenny Adams
Gallery 3
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
Tin Shed art group will be looking with fresh eyes at what is so familiar in our everyday lives we often pass it by. It could be a rumpled bed or the washing-up, the bush by the back door or the kids eating breakfast. We will work to see beyond the superficial in order to understand the essence of what has become so familiar; drilling down to what makes something uniquely ‘it’ and nothing else.
Image: Noelle Bell, Untitled, 2017, detail. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Kerry Shepherdson, Di Broomhall, Narelle Phillips, Leo Robba.
Gallery 1
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
Restoring the Balance is concerned with the idea that everything is intrinsically connected to nature. In this exhibition the artists have responded to their specific discreet relationships with the transitions between fabricated and natural milieu.
Image: Di Broomhall, Matrix light, 2015, oil on canvas 120x90cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Benita Tunks
Gallery 2
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
An installation in response to the decline of the world’s bee population due to the continuing rise of corporate interests favoured over environmental and human needs.
Image: Benita Tunks, Bee Grave prototype, 2018, clay, wire, Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Keith Bailey, Lex Beardsell, Ian Robertson, Alan Howard, Cherylynne Holmes, Jane Styles.
Gallery 3
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
The 2012 ConneXus group’s diversity will be demonstrated by the different media chosen such as painting, pottery, textiles and printmaking. The theme of SurroudUs is addressed by each of the artists to express involvement and experience of their personal surroundings, be it the beauty of natures’ variety or the complexity of the built environment. The artists hope that in the current world of negativity, conflict and fake news, this exhibition will present a feeling of calm, enjoyment and optimism.
Image: Ian Roberrtson, Shimmer of the Past, 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas 110x50.5cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Frank Thiron and Graham Eadie
Gallery 1
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
This exhibition of photographs and paintings re-examines the landscape genre and through its emphasis on mediation, offers a new sensory experience. The works based in time and space support and play off one another, while source material informs and re-orients the fixed gaze towards an unexpected aesthetic experience.
Image: Frank Thirion, Beyond the bounds of possibility, 2018 Photograph on bond paper, 600x400mm.
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Bec Bigg-Wither
Gallery 2
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
In the fiftieth anniversary-year of the first moon-landing, this exhibition considers space exploration and terrestriality. It grounds these poles in a local perspective, using historical NASA public domain images and my own photographs of the site of the former Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra, which helped track the Apollo moon-landing missions.
Image: Bec Bigg-Wither, Launch, 2018, inkjet print, 34x270 cm (detail). Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Marily Stretton
Gallery 3
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
This series of works examines Fire, the last of the four elements in a series of exhibitions undertaken by Stretton over several years at M16 Artspace. Air, Water, Earth and Fire are held to be the physical manifestations of our psychological make-up. Ultimately an examination of the elements is a reminder that life’s force depends on all four and on the balance, or lack of it, that we achieve among them.
Image: Marilyn Stretton, Untitled #2, 2017, acrylic on canvas paper, 30x42cm, Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Kate Smith
Gallery 1a
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
Smith is fascinated by the Australian landscape, particularly moments of change such as dust storms, mists and rain. In these moments, familiar landscapes become bewildering, disconcerting and awe-inspiring.
Image: Kate Smith, Fog Study, 2017, mixed media, 165 x 115, Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Diana McPhetres, Rodney Moss, Neil Lade and Trevor Sutton
Gallery 1b
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
The rugged landscape near Lithgow inspired this series of imaginative and diverse paintings from four Canberra-based artists. The eight-day retreat in an isolated and breath-taking part of the Capertee Valley proved to be a perfect creative spark.
Image: Rodney Moss, Stormy, 2017, Acrylic on canvas.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Gallery 2
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
The works document a journey from the viewpoint of both the seen and unseen. From the bold solid shapes of the scenic vistas, to the microscopic cell structures that lie within both human and landscape forms.
Are we engaged to the environment through a visual pleasure? or upon realisation of our biological similarities? or is there something more to this experience that cannot be quantified?
Image: Peta Morris, Lifting the veil, 2018, Acrylic ink on paper.
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Cait Wait
Gallery 3
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
A collection of seven narrative portraits which illustrate and depict chosen people in a time and place. The oil paintings are a result of a collaboration between the artist and the subject, as they reveal their past, present future connections and memories.
Image: Wait Cait, Sal, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm
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Bob McKendry, Kris Kerehona, David Hempenstall, Lisa Matiazzi, Mark Mohell
Gallery 1
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
There is profound liberation in the unpredictable, instinctive nature of simply experiencing the world – alive – away from the strictures of life’s routines and minutiae, social shackles cast aside. It is something that transcends any conscious outlook: to imbibe without limitation; to feel without rationale; to simply be and bear witness.
Image: Mark Mohell, Untitled 36, 2018, photograph.
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Janet Angus
Gallery 2
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
An exploration of psychological space through painting and the processes involved. I am interested in the human condition, in particular the wounds we develop, the scars we bear and how these shape us over the course of our lives.
Image: Janet Angus, Where you stop is where I begin, 2018, Oil on board, 152 x 137 cm.
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Petros Papoulis
Gallery 3
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
Papoulis has a long-held fascination with the water’s edge. Observing how we interact with it, how we use it, what happens there and how the elements can affect it.
Image: Petros Papoulis, Kingston Drains, 2015, Crayon and Graphite On Paper, 58cmx79.5cm
Photo: Bruce Harley
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